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Includes the following works- Novels- The Portrait of Dorian Gray ; Plays- Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest ; Writings-De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan , An Ideal Husband... Read Full Overview

This is the first large-scale edition of Wilde's work to pay proper tribute to the true breadth of his talent. Each of the literary genres which he mastered is represented. In her 'Introduction and Notes, ' Isobel Murray provides a fascinating insight into Wilde's phenomenal... Read Full Overview

"I treated art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction." Even as he celebrated the artificial and raised frivolity to an art form, Oscar Wilde was creating a new vocabulary of artistic expression-one that was witty and elegant and genuinely subversive in its... Read Full Overview

"I treated art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction." Even as he celebrated the artificial and raised frivolity to an art form, Oscar Wilde was creating a new vocabulary of artistic expression-one that was witty and elegant and genuinely subversive in its... Read Full Overview

"I treated art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction." Even as he celebrated the artificial and raised frivolity to an art form, Oscar Wilde was creating a new vocabulary of artistic expression-one that was witty and elegant and genuinely subversive in its... Read Full Overview